The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-08-05
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The land bordering upon Ksnosha on
the west, northwest and southwest is
fertile and productive, and ii one
traversed the globe he would hardly
find a more inviting landscape. Keno
sha has comparatively large manufac.
turing interests, and its business men
possess the essential qualifications of
capacity and integrity. If one should
enter any center of business and with
!, due diligence sift the population he
| would bring to the surface few indi-
viduals with greed overbalancing judg-
ment. That Main street, north OF the
bridge, reaches an abrupt termination
against dilapidated building arises
from no necessity, but was the out
come of the greed of a few individuals.
The filling up of the wateTcourse at
one point and another from so to 100
feet over the meandered line shows
merely lack of mastery on the part
of the city authorities. The port OF
Chester, on the English coast, was Al
one period a more important shipping
port than Liverpool, but the water, in
side at that place, by one degree and
another shoaled, and the maritime
business was transferred from Chester
to Liverpool. A committee of topo.
graphical engineers appointed by the
English Parliament reported that the
shoaling of the watercourse at the port
of Chester was caused by the greed Of
the inhabitants in docking out into
the watercourse, and thus limiting the
space and volume of the infowing and
outfiowing tide. There is at this har-
Dor, as shown by actual measurement,
an infowing and outfowing tide, hav-
ing an average velocity Of 100 feet in
four minutes.
In building up an important COM
mercial center. it is often an act of
wisdom to occasionally take longitudes
and ATTITUDES, and, where hinderances
are discovered, to take steps for the
removal of the same. Chicago, at an
early period, contained not a multitude
but few men of far-reaching capacity
That class of men noticed that good
harbor was an overpowering necessity
The lack of depth of water inside the
Chicago harbor at one period may be
illustrated from the circumstance that
the schooner G. /. Hutchinson received
a portion of her cargo of $4,000 bushels
of wheat in the lake, outside of the
harbor. Vessels at this time leave
that port with cargoes of $4,000 bush
els of grain.
Kenosha has the natural outfit of a
good harbor, and what is needed is q
representative in Congress who. living
upon the shore of the lake, com pre-
bends the needs of this port. Annual
appropriations amounting to $3.50, 0OC
for the Chicago harbor and annual ap
preparations of $4,000 or $4,000 fol
the harbors of Kenosha and Racine is
not, to use an inappropriate expression
a fair deal. 1t is not indeed what one
could call an equitable tempering Of
the winds to the shorn lamb. Among
other qualified men at Kenosha one
may properly name Hon. z. G.. Sim
mons as an able business man-indeeG
among the foremost in the state. His
nomination and election as represen
tative in Congress would place in thai
Legislative body an able and qualified
man. With Mr.. Simmons in Congress
the river and harbor committee would
be likely to notice that there are OF
! Lake Michigan two ports of much i'm
Iportance known as Kenosha and Ra
cine. And upon all questions. especial
| ly such as have a widespread ant
national Importance, Mr.. Simmons
would occupy the position of a pee
among the able men in Congress.
w. M.